tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21409656946502962802024-09-14T10:38:54.987-07:00the journey- a journal of a girl's journey and survival on a one month muay thai campyelenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14559333702778440727noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2140965694650296280.post-36188578660146258392011-02-12T05:41:00.000-08:002011-02-12T05:57:52.602-08:00That's itI know it’s been a long time and I apologize. After my return back home to Finland I’ve been preoccupied with all sorts of things and trying to get my life back in order. You probably aren’t that interested in reading my excuses so I just go straight to the point.
Leaving Thailand (again) was a sad occasion and heading back to the cold winter didn’t make it any better. My flight was yelenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14559333702778440727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2140965694650296280.post-38092248649657525802010-12-20T21:04:00.000-08:002010-12-26T10:41:29.418-08:00Back to the training.
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20th DecemberAfter recovering from Phuket it was time for the morning run and training. My body was well tired, but I took it easy and survived. After few days off I also had much more energy and power toyelenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14559333702778440727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2140965694650296280.post-11495849524753415392010-12-20T21:03:00.000-08:002010-12-20T21:03:19.620-08:00Phuket
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15th DecemberCongratulations to Chris and James for winning their fights. James managed to knockout his opponent; the happy boy was jumping all over the ring with joy as he only needs to win four more yelenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14559333702778440727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2140965694650296280.post-25324115496535276002010-12-10T21:56:00.000-08:002010-12-10T21:56:19.895-08:00Week 3
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11th DecemberThis week has been emotional and painful.It started with a mental breakdown; my body was just too tired to survive from the training. I felt like I couldn’t do anything and I just sucked. I yelenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14559333702778440727noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2140965694650296280.post-90320165217958884562010-12-06T23:09:00.001-08:002010-12-06T23:30:13.395-08:00About the training
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4th DecemberI thought I should tell you more about the training. It starts with a run, then some skipping, stretching, warm-up, shadow boxing, sparring, grabbling, pads and optional exercise such as yelenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14559333702778440727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2140965694650296280.post-23952486716907363052010-12-06T23:08:00.001-08:002010-12-06T23:32:41.782-08:00Train, sleep, train.
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3rd December The last week has been all about training and sleeping. Every day I have woken up at 6.50am for a 5km run followed by stretching and almost two hour training. After training a jump in the yelenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14559333702778440727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2140965694650296280.post-33234926062558033802010-11-30T19:51:00.001-08:002010-12-06T23:34:34.238-08:00A recap
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29th November So what I’ve been up to here lately? Training of course, oh and being sick.. Had few vey good days of training even went for runs, but one afternoon while relaxing in my bed I started to yelenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14559333702778440727noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2140965694650296280.post-32436510227185009392010-11-24T22:21:00.002-08:002010-12-06T23:35:41.482-08:00Day 3
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24th NovemberYesterday’s training was good. We started with warm-up as usual followed by shadow boxing. Step kick step jab. Shin in. Block. More hip. Block. Learning the right technique from Hlukhin is yelenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14559333702778440727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2140965694650296280.post-2282153223510189282010-11-24T22:21:00.000-08:002010-12-06T23:36:31.153-08:00Day 2
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23rd NovemberThe gang returned from Phuket and unfortunately Chris had lost his fight. They all still ended up having a great night out drinking in the “city”. Hanging around before the training in the yelenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14559333702778440727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2140965694650296280.post-85485297808382645092010-11-24T22:20:00.000-08:002010-12-06T23:38:18.271-08:00First training
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22nd NovemberNot feeling like my soul had gone to transformation for the better and cleaner, I woke up 7.30 in the morning to get ready for my first training. I was a bit nervous, as I didn’t have any yelenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14559333702778440727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2140965694650296280.post-22825971315150982942010-11-24T22:18:00.000-08:002010-12-06T23:39:23.856-08:00Loy Krathong
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21st NovemberI paid for my training and accommodation, took my things to the room, and was invited to a friendly game of gambling. Unfortunately for some I don’t gamble for money so the game was changed yelenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14559333702778440727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2140965694650296280.post-76808972277294981232010-11-24T22:13:00.000-08:002010-11-24T22:13:12.117-08:00The island
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21st NovemberAfter arriving to the Phuket airport I hurried up to the pier so I could still catch the boat. The flight was a bit late and I wasn’t quite sure how late the boats are going. Didn’t want to yelenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14559333702778440727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2140965694650296280.post-85656940669333797152010-11-24T22:07:00.003-08:002010-11-24T22:09:51.909-08:00Bangkok
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19th NovemberSo I finally arrived in Bangkok with my backpack. Unfortunately my friend couldn’t make it to the airport to pick me up but I managed to get to their place by myself. It was so nice to see yelenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14559333702778440727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2140965694650296280.post-29714336233186763532010-11-24T22:07:00.001-08:002010-11-24T22:07:32.922-08:00Apology
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I’m sorry it’s been a long time since the last update. I only have limited access to the Internet at the moment. I will be writing as much as I can and uploading posts at one go. I will add the date to yelenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14559333702778440727noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2140965694650296280.post-10327431726793960352010-11-19T20:54:00.000-08:002010-12-06T23:23:27.528-08:00The flight
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It’s the 18th of November and I’m already updating my blog, I’m surprised. Currently I’m on the flight from Amsterdam to Bangkok. This is a huge plane and it will continue it’s trip all the way to yelenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14559333702778440727noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2140965694650296280.post-8548976502615512102010-11-18T03:51:00.000-08:002010-12-06T23:42:14.525-08:00Welcome to my blog.This is my blog experiment.
I’m Yelena a BBA student from Finland and this is my course assignment. I was assigned to write a blog about anything and update it weekly.
I have just returned from China and after the 7 months in the land where all blogs were blocked, I find this assignment as a way to return to the “civilized world”.
I also take this as a challenge as I was never able to yelenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14559333702778440727noreply@blogger.com0